Non Best Picture Nominees from AFI's Best Pictures
Out of the 100 all-time greatest American movies according to the American Film Institute, only 24 were not nominated for the Best Picture Oscar despite the fact that they were eligible and had gained iconic status shortly after their release.
Assuming that most of these movies deserved at least a Best Picture nod, which one, would you say, should have actually won the Oscar? In other words, which non-Best Picture nominee is your 'Best Picture'?
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In addition, the Best Picture nominees for each year of release, in capital letters, the BEST PICTURE of the year, and in bold letters, a film that made the AFI's Top 100 (ironically, 11 of the featured years didn't have a single Best Picture nominee that made the AFI's Top 100).
Assuming that most of these movies deserved at least a Best Picture nod, which one, would you say, should have actually won the Oscar? In other words, which non-Best Picture nominee is your 'Best Picture'?
Discuss here
In addition, the Best Picture nominees for each year of release, in capital letters, the BEST PICTURE of the year, and in bold letters, a film that made the AFI's Top 100 (ironically, 11 of the featured years didn't have a single Best Picture nominee that made the AFI's Top 100).
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Ivanhoe Moulin Rouge
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Defiant Ones
Separate Tables - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinVirginia CherrillFlorence LeeWith the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.CIMARRON East Lynne Fox
The Front Page Skippy
Trader Horn - DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneJeffrey HunterVera MilesAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Friendly Persuasion
Giant The King and I
The Ten Commandments - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.THE APARTMENT The Alamo
Elmer Gantry Sons and Lovers
The Sundowners - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKeir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterAfter uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.OLIVER! Funny Girl
The Lion in Winter Rachel, Rachel
Romeo and Juliet - DirectorBilly WilderStarsMarilyn MonroeTony CurtisJack LemmonAfter two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.BEN-HUR Anatomy of a Murder
The Diary of Anne Frank The Nun's Story
Room at the Top - DirectorWilliam CottrellDavid HandWilfred JacksonStarsAdriana CaselottiHarry StockwellLucille La VerneExiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA The Awful Truth
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The Good Earth In Old Chicago
Lost Horizon One Hundred Men and a Girl
Stage Door A Star Is Born - DirectorMerian C. CooperErnest B. SchoedsackStarsFay WrayRobert ArmstrongBruce CabotA film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.CAVALCADE 42nd Street
A Farewell to Arms I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Lady for a Day Little Women
The Private Life of Henry VIII She Done Him Wrong
Smilin' Through State Fair - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartGrace KellyWendell CoreyA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.ON THE WATERFRONT The Caine Mutiny
The Country Girl Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Three Coins in the Fountain - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantEva Marie SaintJames MasonA New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.BEN-HUR Anatomy of a Murder
The Diary of Anne Frank The Nun's Story
Room at the Top - DirectorLeo McCareyStarsGroucho MarxHarpo MarxChico MarxRufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side they're on.CAVALCADE 42nd Street
A Farewell to Arms I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Lady for a Day Little Women
The Private Life of Henry VIII She Done Him Wrong
Smilin' Through State Fair - DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartKatharine HepburnRobert MorleyIn WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.AN AMERICAN IN PARIS Decision Before Dawn
A Place in the Sun Quo Vadis
A Streetcar Named Desire - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardHenry BergmanThe Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.THE GREAT ZIEGFELD Anthony Adverse
Dodsworth Libeled Lady
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Romeo and Juliet
San Francisco The Story of Louis Pasteur
A Tale of Two Cities Three Smart Girls - DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsWilliam HoldenErnest BorgnineRobert RyanAn aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.MIDNIGHT COWBOY Anne of the Thousand Days
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Hello, Dolly!
Z - DirectorStanley KubrickAnthony MannStarsKirk DouglasLaurence OlivierJean SimmonsThe slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.THE APARTMENT The Alamo
Elmer Gantry Sons and Lovers
The Sundowners - DirectorDennis HopperStarsPeter FondaDennis HopperJack NicholsonTwo bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.MIDNIGHT COWBOY Anne of the Thousand Days
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Hello, Dolly!
Z - DirectorSam WoodEdmund GouldingStarsGroucho MarxChico MarxHarpo MarxA sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY Alice Adams
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David Copperfield The Informer
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer A Midsummer Night's Dream
Les Misérables Naughty Marietta
Ruggles of Red Gap Top Hat - DirectorHoward HawksStarsKatharine HepburnCary GrantCharles RugglesWhile trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU The Adventures of Robin Hood
Alexander's Ragtime Band Boys Town
The Citadel Four Daughters
Grand Illusion Jezebel
Pygmalion Test Pilot - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersVictor MooreRoguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.THE GREAT ZIEGFELD Anthony Adverse
Dodsworth Libeled Lady
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Romeo and Juliet
San Francisco The Story of Louis Pasteur
A Tale of Two Cities Three Smart Girls - DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsMeryl StreepKevin KlinePeter MacNicolSophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.GANDHI E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Missing Tootsie
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Missing Tootsie
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